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and this is when we had a much more successful election, the parliamentarian elections and so forth. there was an opportunity, i believe, at that stage to consolidate some gains and to move toward a sustainable political outcome. and we know that some of those efforts failed or weren't sufficient to consolidate those gains. and so the future of iraq is, obviously, very much in question beyond this point, but i think it's very important to understand that these conflicts evolve over time, and we're fighting enemies there who have a say in the future course of events, and we need to talk more about those enemies. what are they trying to achieve, what are their goals, what are their strategies? because then we could inform the public about what the stakes are. but instead we talk about only us, and we talk about only our number of troops and what we did and as if everything we did led to the outcome without any interaction with those against whom we're fighting. >> let's open the conversation now, and -- [laughter] i think what we'll do given the number of hands i see is we'll take two
and this is when we had a much more successful election, the parliamentarian elections and so forth. there was an opportunity, i believe, at that stage to consolidate some gains and to move toward a sustainable political outcome. and we know that some of those efforts failed or weren't sufficient to consolidate those gains. and so the future of iraq is, obviously, very much in question beyond this point, but i think it's very important to understand that these conflicts evolve over time, and...
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, the impending election was a postponing of the election and the problems surrounding the election and the imf loans are related. and so at least one of the arguments that have been made by the fund and i don't mean the only argument, is that they cannot in good faith commit to an agreement or has egypt commit to an agreement or have morsi commit to an agreement that does not have rod-based consensus meaning it is not approved by a legitimately elected parliament and that until that transpires, they are not going to you know, get to the $4.8 billion. there is much more going on than that. that is certainly one aspect of it and the other aspect and this is maybe four many of you to think about what the role should be is that it is not the case and it does not been the case in the past that the international community as regional players will allow egypt to fail. that is not happened in the last 30 or 40 years when egypt made based crisis at the end of the 1980s in which there were also running out of foreign reserves and couldn't pay off loans to the international paris club in the unit
, the impending election was a postponing of the election and the problems surrounding the election and the imf loans are related. and so at least one of the arguments that have been made by the fund and i don't mean the only argument, is that they cannot in good faith commit to an agreement or has egypt commit to an agreement or have morsi commit to an agreement that does not have rod-based consensus meaning it is not approved by a legitimately elected parliament and that until that...
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we teach at the kennedy school, for example, we teach a newly elected members of congress program every two years. this year i taught, i think we had 56 newly elected members, and in addition to teaching them budgeting and event during the day, i mean, i had a whole group of them that met with him privately just to go through some of these issues. a lot of interest in reforming the veterans disability system. a lot of interest in what's going on in the tricare and pentagon health care system. a lot of interest in trying to get information. i have a lot of staffers on the hill who are contacting me and my students all the time trying to get information. i have not seen that translate into somebody who would fall on their sword, so speak, to try and lead a complete transformation in how we think about war costs, and you know i don't see anyone, unicode is sort of about to take that charge. i think a number of those who have looked at it carefully, for example, bob who was the head of the house veterans committee, who is very much embraced my reform ideas for the disability system. he left
we teach at the kennedy school, for example, we teach a newly elected members of congress program every two years. this year i taught, i think we had 56 newly elected members, and in addition to teaching them budgeting and event during the day, i mean, i had a whole group of them that met with him privately just to go through some of these issues. a lot of interest in reforming the veterans disability system. a lot of interest in what's going on in the tricare and pentagon health care system. a...
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the american people elected a divided government. it was not a mandate for either party. it's a challenge and a challenge that all of us need to accept. so let us act now. let us summon the courage to stand up and work together on a truly balanced plan, not one that calls forever more spending and ever higher taxes but one that puts in place real reforms. the first step is passing a credible budget. sadly, in my opinion, this budget doesn't match the need. and so hopefully we can make the adjustments to this to put us on that path to prosperity, and with that, mr. president, i yield the floor. mrs. murray: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from washington. mrs. murray: thank you, mr. president. i yield myself ten minutes off the resolution. the presiding officer: without objection. mrs. murray: mr. president, we are having this debate today in hopes of ultimately reaching a fair and bipartisan budget deal, and we all know that's not going to be easy, so the least we can do is get our facts straight. it's kind of disappointing to see that rather than engagi
the american people elected a divided government. it was not a mandate for either party. it's a challenge and a challenge that all of us need to accept. so let us act now. let us summon the courage to stand up and work together on a truly balanced plan, not one that calls forever more spending and ever higher taxes but one that puts in place real reforms. the first step is passing a credible budget. sadly, in my opinion, this budget doesn't match the need. and so hopefully we can make the...
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i was elected chairman of the d.c. republican party as an openly gay man, and was original chairman of law cabin republicans. as a gay man, i personally support marriage equality because it's the right thing to do. i have many friends have been in committed relationships for many years have gotten married. each of these couples recognizes the responsibility, that come along with marriage. it's time for them to also receive the rights that come with marriage for everybody else. i want to thank senator rob portman, a fellow cincinnati in, a fellow cincinnati and a longtime friend of mine, for his courage and supported not only his son, but coming out in support of gay marriage. it's the first republican senator in the united states currently, and it won't be the last. [cheers and applause] so i grew up in ohio, as i said. ohio as -- when i was going up respected people. theithe respective party and everyone respected people's private lives. that changed but we will change it back. so am honored to be here today, and i re
i was elected chairman of the d.c. republican party as an openly gay man, and was original chairman of law cabin republicans. as a gay man, i personally support marriage equality because it's the right thing to do. i have many friends have been in committed relationships for many years have gotten married. each of these couples recognizes the responsibility, that come along with marriage. it's time for them to also receive the rights that come with marriage for everybody else. i want to thank...